{"id":575725,"date":"2026-07-30T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575725\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:19:08","slug":"i-did-have-a-chat-mayo-and-geelongs-oisin-mullin-on-all-ireland-final-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575725\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I did have a chat’: Mayo and Geelong’s Ois\u00edn Mullin on All-Ireland final conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ois\u00edn Mullin has confirmed that a conversation took place between Mayo and his AFL club, Geelong Cats, about getting him home to play a part in Sunday\u2019s All-Ireland SFC final<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mullin – currently playing a key role for Geelong having left Ireland at the end of 2021 – approached Cats head coach Chris Scott<\/a> about the possibility of being part of the Mayo setup for their tilt at ending 75 years of hurt against Kerry at Croke Park last weekend.<\/p>\n

The former Mayo footballer explained the situation, noting that he did have a chat with the Mayo management, along with head coach Scott about getting home between the Cats’ clash with Melbourne on Friday and the now historic Croker decider.<\/p>\n

“I did have a chat with the coach back home, and obviously Chris here,” the 26-year-old said. “In the off-season, Geelong did give me an extended period at home, and I was fortunate that Mayo let me join them to train in the off-season as well, so there was that connection there.<\/p>\n

“So, the coach just touched base with me from home and had a chat with Scotty… Obviously the circumstances around where we are in the ladder here and the time of season, it just didn’t work out.”<\/p>\n

On Mayo’s historic win, Mullin added: “Oh it was massive. It’s been 75 years since they won it; there’s been so many finals that Mayo have played in and not managed to get over the line.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“To finally get it done, the whole county has gone into lockdown, the celebrations are off the charts, it looks unbelievable… I was just excited watching on from here and seeing the boys get the result and get it done.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ois\u00edn Mullin has confirmed that a conversation took place between Mayo and his AFL club, Geelong Cats, about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1965,1128,42,43,850,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-575725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-hurling","tag-football","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}